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Obama’s poll numbers continue to rise
NEW YORK. Oct 20: Bouyed by the endorsement of former US Secretary of State and a four star general Colin Powell, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama continues to hold a wide lead over his Republican rival John McCain.... 
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Barak condemns attacks by settlers: Palestinian olive harvest
JERUSALEM, Oct 20: Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Monday lashed out at “thugs” who interfere with the Palestinian olive harvest, amid reports of further attacks by settlers on farmers in the West Bank....
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Non-proliferation body hold first session
SYDNEY, Oct 20: More than a dozen nations held talks on Monday on strengthening an international agreement on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons....
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Lankan paper tells Indians to mind their own business
COLOMBO, Oct 20: A leading Sri Lankan daily has advised Indian leaders to keep off the Tamil refugees in Sri Lanka and look after the poor in their own country....
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India begins countdown to first lunar mission
CHENNAI, Oct 20: India began the countdown on Monday to the launch of its first unmanned mission to the moon that will mark a giant catch-up step with Japan and China in the fast-developing Asian space race....
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UK defence ministry releases UFO files
LONDON, Oct 20: Britain’s defence ministry made public secret files on UFO sightings on Monday, with the dossier including reports ranging from a woman claiming to be an alien to calm pilots giving objective accounts....
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LTTE in do-or-die battle to save base: Lankan govt admits to heavy troop loss
COLOMBO, Oct 20: The Sri Lankan government admitted on Monday that scores of its troops had been killed or injured in fierce fighting with the Tamil Tigers, its biggest reported battlefield loss in months....
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Cannibal chef gets 30-year jail
LONDON, Oct 20: A court on Monday sent a chef to jail for killing a lover and eating parts of his flesh after cooking it with fresh herbs and olive oil....
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BD handed over 11 suspects to India: report
DHAKA, Oct 20: Bangladesh deported 11 suspected Indian insurgents between June and August in an effort to end cross-border attacks, a state-run news agency reported on Monday....
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BJP enforces day-long shutdown in Goa
PANAJI (India), Oct 20: The Indian resort state of Goa largely shut down on Monday as part of a protest against the desecration of Hindu idols, posing problems for tourists at the start of the main holiday season....
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Speeding biker
LONDON, Oct 20: A court on Monday sentenced a motorcyclist to 12 weeks in prison for riding at a speed up to 208 kilometres per hour and doing dangerous stunts in Britain.—AFP...
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Political differences over abortion growing among Catholics
JENKINTOWN (Pennsylvania): Mary Anne Burke’s voice was full of emotion as she left her 31st message of the night, this one for a parishioner of the Church of Immaculate Conception....
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‘Response to 9/11 was a huge overreaction’
LONDON: When guide dogs are retired from service, it is common for them to enter a state best described as old-aged adolescence. As they begin to understand that they’re no longer...
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New road now terror highway in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR: The mood inside the bus is grave. It is just before 3am. The passengers — burdened with suitcases, cardboard boxes, cloth bundles and flasks of green tea —have the air of prisoners of war being transported to an uncertain fate....
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Sugar harvest advances have social cost in Brazil
PRINCESA ISABEL (Brazil): Ines Ferreira dos Santos lives with four of her children in a spacious, colourful house at the end of a dusty street....
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S. Korea hopes for tourism boom amid minefields and barbed wire
YEONCHEON (South Korea): Hundreds of colourful ribbons bearing messages yearning for peace flutter from a barbed-wire fence at the edge of the heavily fortified buffer zone dividing Korea....
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